Lighting-fixture tassel



oct. zo, 1925. 1,557,622

S. SHAPIRO LIGHTING FIXTURE TASSEL mea aan. 29, 1925 Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

OFFICE- SAUL SHAPIRO, F NEW YORK, N. Y., SSGNOR TO ARTCRAFT METAL STAB/[PING CORPORATION, .iii CRJE'GTION 0F NEW YORK.

LIGHTING-FIXTURE TASSEL.

Application led January 29; 1925. Serial No. 5,672.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, SAUL SHAPrno, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Lighting-Fixture Tassel, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to tassels for lighting` fixtures or the like and is more particularly directed toward the provision of a sheet metal structure suitable for use as an ornamental tassel in a lighting fixture.

Many styles of lighting fixtures are provided with ornamented tassels as part of the scheme of ornamentation, and to improve the artistic appearance of the fixture. These knobs and tassels are usually provided with the same finish that is applied to the body of the fixture and are usually made of the same material used in the larger parts of the fixture, on account of the convenience of manufacture and in order that they will satisfactorily pass through the subsequent finishing processes. This has resulted in the common use of large quantities of brass tassels and knobs in the form of castings. The cast brass tassel of the size required in many forms of fixtures7 is a rather heavy part, and expensive on account of the quantity of material used.

The present invention contemplates a tassel, which is made largely out of sheet metal stampings. In this manner one is able to provide an inexpensive, light weight part which is made of the same material as the body of the fixture. The tassel appears to be solid and massive and may be finished in the same manner as the remainder of the fixture.

The invention also contemplates the provision of a lighting fixture part of the character referred to, wherein the surface ornamentation may y be produced with much greater nicety of detail than is possible with cast tassels produced in the ordinary commercial manner. Y

The accompanying dra-wing shows one of the many possible forms in which the present invention may be embodied, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of the invention which may be embodied in various forms.

1l which are preferably rolled together about their peripheral edges as shown at 12 to form a closed hollow body. The lower stamping ll is preferably downwardly dished and provided with some style of surface ornamentation and contour of artistic design. such. for example, as isindicated at the left of Figure l. The upper stamping is shown as having a generally frustro-conical configuration, and is smaller at the top than the lower rolled edge. This stamping may. be given any` suitable surface orna# mentation and, as the surface is free of any longitudinal seams, or ridges.l the ornamentation may be regular and continuous.

The body of the tassel, as made up from .the stampings, may be attached to the upper knot portion i3 in many ways. In the construction illustrated in the drawing, the upper part of the stampingl() is inwardly flanged and provided with an aperture 14; through which a bushingl l5 is passed. rEhe bushing;V may be threaded externally as indicated and may be fastened to the stamping by st ildering if desired. The knot portion 13, of the tasse]v may be in the form oi a solid metal casting, and is here shown at 1'6 as being recessed and threaded to receive the threaded bushing l5. The casting 13 is also preferably provided with an eye or loop 17 for the purpose of hanging or suspending the tassel in the customary manner.

The stampings and 1l may be made out of the same kind of material as the other parts of the fixture, and in some cases these stampings may be used in making up or ornamenting` other parts of the fixture. The stamping are permanently united along an invisible seam, and the body of the tassel may be polished, buffed, plated or bur-V nished as a unit without any fear of opening up of the seam. The hollow body of the tassel may be united with the solid knot portion in a manner to carry out the ornamental scheme and produce a completed tassel which appears as if it were in the form of a solid casting. It may be inished as a unit. The form of tassel contemplated by the present invention is particularly susceptible of quantity production at low cost for Inaterials and labor, and the tasse'ls, on account of their light weight ma be handled and stored with little likelihood of injury.

t is, of course, obvious that the tassel may be constructed out of more than two stampings, especially' when it is desired to make a tassel using reentrant curves; also that any desired form of orina-ment may be impressed in the suriace of parts of 4the tassel by using properly shaped dies.

It is obvious that the invention may be embodied in many forms and constructions, and I wish vit to be understood tliatthe particular form shown is "only one of the many forms. Various modilications and ,changes being possible, I dofnot limit myself in any way with respect thereto.

That iis claimed is: V

1. A lighting fixture tassel comprising a bottomA downwardly dished stamping, 'an upper stamping whose Alower peripheral edge ispermanent-ly united to the upper peripheral edge of the lower stamping, a bushing fastened to the upper part of the upper stamping, and a metal member threaded on'to the outside of the bushing, the upper side of said metal member having a ring for hanging the tassel.

2. A lighting fixture tassel, having a bottom downwardly dished stamping, an upper 'stamping whose @ordigni-ation 1s substantially frusto-conical, the adjacent peripheral edges oi the stampings being perinanently united to 'torni a tassel body, a threaded bushing at the upper end of the upper stamping, and a solid metal member threaded onto the outside of the bushing and against the upper end of the stamping.

3. A lighting fixture tassel, comprising a plurality ot hollow stanlpings united along their peripheral edges to orm a closed hollow body, and an exposed metal knot portion attached to the upper end 'off the upper stamping anc. provided with a supporting ring.

In a 'lighting` liziture tassel, a plurality of sheet metal stanipings united along their -periph'eral `edges to forni a 'closed hollow body, a bushing attached to one of the 'stampin'gs, and a cast metal knot portion threaded fonte 'the outside of the bushing.

5. in a lighting fixture tassel, a trustd conical stamping, having an inwardly directed liange at its upper and smaller end, a cast metal knob portion attached to said flange and concealing the Vflange, and a second stamping downwardly dished, the edges of the stanipings 'being rolled together to form a closed hollow body.

SAUL SHAPIRO, 

